The Steelhead 100 supports up to about 5 people while the Steelhead 200 supports up to about 20 people. About the size of a DSL modem, they can run on a desktop rather than a dedicated server room, and they offer all the key optimization technologies for significant bandwidth reduction and application acceleration.
For future growth, the Steelhead 100 is software-upgradeable to the model 300.

Ideal for: Organisations with 500+ employees.
Websense Web Security Gateway allows organizations to secure Web traffic effectively while still enabling the latest Web-based tools and applications.

Through a multi-vector traffic scanning engine, Websense Web Security Gateway analyzes Web traffic in real-time, instantly categorizing new sites and dynamic content, proactively discovering security risks, and blocking dangerous malware.
Websense Web Security Gateway provides advanced analytics to detect and block proxy avoidance, hacking sites, adult content, botnets, keyloggers, phishing attacks, spyware, and many other types of unsafe content.
In summary, Websense Web Security Gateway provides:

• Effective protection against Web 2.0 threats - Unique insight into the dynamic nature of Web 2.0 enables organizations to securely embrace new technology
• Clear visibility into all Web traffic - Reliable content analysis, including SSL encrypted content
• Simplified control - State-of-the-art, Web-based GUI allows you to enforce policies and reduce management costs

For mid-size or regional offices with 75 to 650 employees (depending on the device and usage characteristics), Riverbed offers a range of appliances with greater capacity and proxy file services.

These models are 1U rack-mountable and offer optional multi-port Ethernet cards for integration into multi-link or redundant WAN links.  The Steelhead 520 is software-upgradeable to the1020.

Steelhead 3020, 3520, 5520, 6020, 6120

For larger corporate offices or data centres, the largest Steelhead models provide greater capacity and redundancy.

Optional multi-port Ethernet cards enable integration into multi-link or redundant WAN configurations. Clustering with the Interceptor appliance provides additional failover or scaling in very large deployments. With a 3U rack-mountable form factor, these devices contain RAID, triple power supplies, and hot-swappable disk to ensure maximum uptime and reliability.

Riverbed Interceptor is the ideal solution for the largest enterprise networks. With support for up to 4 Gbps of optimized WAN traffic and up to 1,000,000 simultaneous TCP connections, theInterceptor allows real-time cluster management and the addition, modification, or removal of Steelhead appliances in a connection distribution group.

Interceptor appliances can be configured for failover mode to provide continued operations in the event of a hardware failure.

The Interceptor is deployed in-line behind a WAN router at the data centre, from where it distributes TCP connections evenly across a stack of local Steelhead appliances.

Typical Interceptor deployment is shown below:

Download the Riverbed Interceptor Feature Brief